Portfolio for Tim Okamura - Commissionaportrait

Born in Edmonton, Canada, painter Tim Okamura earned a B.F.A. with Distinction at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Canada before moving to New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Illustration as Visual Journalism in 1993, Okamura moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he still resides. Okamura has had several solo exhibitions in New York City and Canada, and has had his work chosen for inclusion in several prominent group exhibitions, including “After Matisse/Picasso” at the Museum of Modern Art-affiliated P.S.1 in Queens, N.Y., as well as being selected five times to appear in the BP Portrait Awards Exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Okamura - a recipient of the 2004 Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts – has also had his paintings featured in several films including “Pieces of April” (InDiGent), “School of Rock” (Paramount), “Jersey Girl” (Miramax), and most prominently in “Prime” (Universal), a romantic comedy about a young New York painter starring Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep. Okamura’s work is also notable in Ethan Hawke’s “The Hottest State”. Tim Okamura’s art is on display in the permanent collections of The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Toronto Congress Center, the Hotel Arts in Calgary, Canada, and Standard Chartered Bank in London, England; and in the private collections of Uma Thurman, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (The Roots), director Ben Younger, and actors Bryan Greenberg, Vanessa Marcil, Annabella Sciorra, and Ethan Hawke.

Education

1996-99 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1993 M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1991 B.F.A., Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada

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